windows xp pro taking over

my partners laptop is running xp pro. it has a 40Gb hard drive of wich
32 Gb is taken up by the windows folder. upon investigation the
system32 folder is 22Gb. the program folder is only 2 Gb with only a
handful of programmes. does anybody know whats going on and or a
solution? thanks

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"forresloon" wrote:
> my partners laptop is running xp pro. it has a 40Gb hard drive
> of wich 32 Gb is taken up by the windows folder. upon
> investigation the system32 folder is 22Gb. the program folder
> is only 2 Gb with only a handful of programmes. does anybody
> know whats going on and or a solution? thanks

Thats alot of space, my system32 folder is only 1GB, you should find
out what files and directorys in the system32 folder are taking up
that space, you will then have to decide if it’s safe to delete.

"forresloon" wrote:
> my partners laptop is running xp pro. it has a 40Gb hard drive
> of wich 32 Gb is taken up by the windows folder. upon
> investigation the system32 folder is 22Gb. the program folder
> is only 2 Gb with only a handful of programmes. does anybody
> know whats going on and or a solution? thanks

Thanks for your reply. I looked and found that the machine had come
pre loaded with everything imaginable filling the hard drive. as she
did not have a lot of data or programmes on the computor I started a
fresh and formatted the drive. aftr re installing everything she needs
the system 32 folder is less than 700M. alls well but thanks.

forresloon

for future reference, it was probably a trojan/xdcc hack.. google xdcc
bot or something like that you will get the idea, what normally happens
is someone finds a windows exploit that gives complete control of the
computer to them, then they normally hide a ftpserver and files in
%windir%/system32/folder where folder is hidden. Just some info to let
the next person know.


Matthew Rice
Rice Computer Solutions
www.ricecs.com